Note 803 — MAGNYFYCENCE, A GOODLY INTERLUDE AND A MERY, DEUYSED AND MADE BY MAYSTER SKELTON, POET LAUREATE.[779]
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By Goddes fote, &c.] Here the prefixes to the speeches are surely wrong: but as I am doubtful how they ought to be assigned, I have not ventured to alter them. Qy.
“Court. Ab. By Goddes fote, and I dare well fyght, for I wyll not start.
Cl. Col. Nay, thou art a man good inough but for thy false hart.
Court. Ab. Well, and I be a coward, ther is mo than I.
Cl. Col Ye, in faythe, a bolde man and a hardy;
A bolde man in a bole of newe ale in cornys.
Court. Ab. Wyll ye se,” &c.